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Chapter 247 The little carpenter made a fortune

Gao Shixin decided to hand over the real estate of the fields and shops to Emperor Tianqi and turn these assets into royal assets. Of course, Emperor Tianqi could not manage these assets by himself, and must have handed them over to the supervision of Sili. What is the difference between falling into the hands of Sili and Eunuch Wei and Zhang Yong and others?

"The confiscated Yansheng Gong's fields were all confiscated and turned into imperial villages. The captured demon thieves became slaves of the imperial villages. They were asked to farm in the imperial villages and gave them a bite of food. The Silijian sent their father-in-law to manage them. The Emperor only believed that we were the father-in-laws. But some of the father-in-laws would definitely not be able to manage so many places. At that time, the father-in-law who sent to manage the imperial villages would also recruit a group of supervisors to assist in the management. As for those supervisors, they would choose from the disabled people in our army!" Zhang Yong said, "The confiscated shops, caravans, etc. were also confiscated to the Emperor, and they were also sent by the Silijian to manage them."

A small part of the gold, silver and treasures that were raided from the house were secretly stuffed into his arms by Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi himself. Whether it was Gao Shixin, Zhang Yong, or Xu Xianchun, they all turned a blind eye and regarded it as if they had not seen it. Anyway, they could not take away much. Most of the things taken were jade, pearls, gems, jewelry, antiques and other items. Although those things were expensive, they were not as good as real gold and silver. Those jade, jade, jewelry, etc. were really sent to the imperial treasury, and the carpenters and emperors were both troubled to sell them. Then they could only ask the father-in-laws in the palace to sell them? The gold and silver they sold for exchanges would make a profit from it. Instead of making money for those father-in-laws, it would be better to turn a blind eye and treat them as rewards to the men under his command.

There were also those beautiful maids, maids, Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong who were snatched away by the Jinyiwei and the monks as rewards.

To be honest, those beautiful maids, maids, and Gao Shixin looked down on them. Which of his own women is not much more beautiful than them? Zhang Yong also looked down on them. As a young and powerful father-in-law, many little palace maids in the palace secretly gave Zhang Yong a secret, fighting to fight with Zhang Yong, but most palace maids could not catch Zhang Yong's eyes.

In fact, even Kebaba secretly likes Zhang Yong, a handsome young man, but Zhang Yong doesn't want to lose his uncle, nor does he like a fierce, brainless and cruel woman like Kebaba. Zhang Yong thought to himself that a few years later, when Queen Zhang Yan was pregnant, how to protect the queen and let Zhang Yan give birth to the child, so that it would be impossible for the king to become king.

"Reported to Eunuch Zhang, Chief Gao, and Chief Xu, we found 12.53 million taels of silver, 1.6 million taels of gold, and 5 million stones of grain! This is a list, please check it out!" A Dongchang man in charge of registration interrupted Zhang Yong's contemplation.

Zhang Yong and Gao Shixin, Xu Xianchun and others discussed how to deal with such a huge amount of money and how much should be paid to the Inner Trustee of the Apocalypse.

"My opinion is that we leave half of it and the remaining half is handed over to the emperor." Gao Shixin said.

"I agree, just leave half of it." Xu Xianchun agreed with Gao Shixin's proposal. Although it was already very conscientious that the Jinyiwei's household raid could be handed over 40% of the income, the amount of the income confiscated this time was too huge, and 60% were intercepted. I'm afraid Xu Xianchun would not dare to eat it.

Zhang Yong also nodded: "We handed over 6 million taels of silver and 800,000 taels of gold to the emperor's treasury, and took out the grain, and part of it was sent to the help of Liaoyang Xinzhen, Qi family army and Baigan soldiers as military pay, and the rest of the food was used to comfort the victims. In this way, we could leave 6.53 million taels of silver and 800,000 taels of gold. According to convention, half of this was distributed to our factory guard brothers. Each of us three brothers could get one million taels of silver and 130,000 taels of gold!"

Xu Xianchun laughed. Once the house was searched, he transferred one million taels of silver and 130,000 taels of gold. This was simply a fortune! This time he went out of Beijing to do business, and he made more than two million taels of silver at once! If it were in the past, Xu Xianchun would never dare to think about it! More than two million taels of silver, I am afraid that Xu Xianchun’s father’s family would not have that much silver?

There is definitely not. Although Xu Xianchun is the princess' grandson, the prince-consort's lord is not hereditary. In other words, only his grandfather, the prince-consort, Xu Congcheng, enjoys the preferential treatment of the court, and when his father's generation is gone, there will be no preferential treatment. Not to mention his father, his grandfather and his grandmother don't have that much money.

"I never expected that Kong Yinzhi, the dog thief, was so rich! He had more money than the inner treasury of His Majesty!" Xu Xianchun said with a smile.

Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong agreed to each other and said in their hearts: Xu Xianchun, how could you know that during the Chongzhen period, any minister in the court had more silver than the royal treasury!

Zhang Yong first wrote the memorial, and then gave it to a Jinyiwei, who sent the memorial to the capital for 800 miles in a hurry. The confiscated property is not dared to send it directly to the capital, because Xu Hongru's bandits still controlled the canal, and the factory guards had to wait until the bandits were wiped out before they could send the money to the capital with confidence.

As for the death of Qufu County Magistrate Kong Wenli, the memorial stated that the county Magistrate Kong Wenli was killed by Xu Hongru's rebels.

The Jinyiwei who delivered the report rushed to the capital for 800 miles and changed horses at every ten miles. It took only a day and a half to report Zhang Yong's report to the capital.

"Old ancestor, ancestor, I'm so happy! I'm so happy!" Wei Zhongxian's confidant eunuch Ji Yong hurriedly ran in.

"Boy, why are you happy?" Wei Zhongxian asked.

Ji smiled and opened the report sent by Zhang Yongren: "It's so great! From now on, the inner treasury of the Ming Dynasty will have silver! Our Silijian will also have silver!"

Wei Zhongxian took the report and opened it and saw that his dry face was smiling like a chrysanthemum: "Hahaha! Yongwazi did a beautiful job! Six million taels of silver, eight hundred thousand taels of gold! Kong Yinzhi is such a dog, so rich!"

Ji Yong handed over another letter: "Old ancestor, this is the letter from Eunuch Zhang to our rank and supervisor."

Wei Zhongxian opened it and saw that the letter was written in plain language. Wei Zhongxian quickly finished reading the letter. The general content of the letter was that the land of Yansheng Gong Mansion was collected, which included 2,600 hectares of sacrifice fields and 3,700 hectares of learning fields. In other words, the duty-free land in Yansheng Gong's family was at least 600,000 acres of tax-free land! There were also farmlands dedicated to Yansheng Gong's Mansion by people from all over Shandong, and those fields were more than 10,000 hectares. Zhang Yong explained the way to deal with Yansheng Gong's property in the letter.

All the sacrifice fields and academic fields of Yanshenggong were confiscated and confiscated, and converted into farmlands by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The prisoners captured during the rebellion of Xu Hongru were turned into slaves for farming. The emperor reported to the emperor that all the farmlands were handed over to the Sili Supervisor. The Sili Supervisor sent his father-in-law to manage the farmland and recruited supervisors to supervise the slaves.

The status of slaves was very low, without any wages, and they only maintained their most basic life, and all the income from the imperial village belonged to the royal family.

In addition to the captured scholars of the Fragrance Sect who became slaves, the Mongols and Jurchens who were captured in wars in the future can become slaves. Of course, the Jurchen prisoners who were converted into slaves do not include the Jianzhou Jurchens. Anyone who was captured in Jianzhou Jurchens will be executed.

The farmlands dedicated to Yanshenggong by the people of Shandong have also become farmlands that depend on the imperial village, and are also farmed for farmers. The renting fee is not more than the annual contributions paid to Yanshenggong by the farmers. There are no extra taxes and taxes. Moreover, these farmlands that depend on the imperial village can terminate the contract at any time and take back the farmlands and turn them into their own, but after the contract is terminated, farmers no longer enjoy the preferential policies of relying on the imperial village.

Wei Zhongxian sighed: "Yongwazi is a good move. Turning the farmers who originally donated the land into dependent imperial villages is equivalent to turning the land dedicated to the gentry into dedication to the emperor! But that's what happened, who will contribute land to the landlords and gentry in the future? They all go to contribute land to the emperor! But in this way, Yongwazi will be hated to death by the gentry!"
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